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Postmedia president and CEO Paul Godfrey says the Sun brand will remain a strong part of Canada’s newest — and now largest — media company.

Godfrey told a gathering of Toronto Sun employees Tuesday that the newspaper will remain separate from the company’s broadsheet daily, the National Post. The two papers, both headquartered in Toronto, will continue to have separate newsrooms, he added.

“The Sun name will always continue to fly,” Godfrey said after acknowledging the event was a “homecoming” for him.

Godfrey was first hired as publisher of the Sun in 1984. He served in a number of capacities with the company until 2000 when he left the Sun Media chain, which was then owned by Quebecor Inc., to run the Toronto Blue Jays.

He said Postmedia’s historic purchase of Sun Media from Quebecor in late 2014 was a deal three years in the making.

Godfrey told employees that while the media company now owns daily newspapers in markets where they have traditionally been competitors, the papers will continue to operate independently.

“The Sun and its direct competition ... are now all in the same family,” he said. “The state of the industry has changed dramatically.”

Godfrey cited Postmedia’s operation of both the Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province, two competing daily newspapers, as an example of the model moving forward.

“I can tell you we’re going to have separate newsrooms,” he said. “The way we handled it in Vancouver. The Sun and the Province are both in the same building. They’re on different floors. They have different editorial policies.”

Godfrey said some content will be shared among newspapers, citing early plans to include some Sun sports coverage and writers in other Postmedia publications.

“There is no doubt the Sun still has the best sports section in the whole country, if not all of North America,” Godfrey said.

He also confirmed Sun employees will leave the newspaper’s historic home at 333 King St. E., possibly by December. They’ll move to the same building as their National Post counterparts on Bloor St. E., near Sherbourne St.

“You’re going to be coming and joining us in that building,” he said. “The sooner the better.”

Godfrey shared stories of his time at the Sun in the 1980s and of personalities from the paper’s past who he said helped teach him about the news business.

“Coming to the Sun was the best move I ever made for my family and for my own career,” he added. “It was probably the most fun I ever had working anywhere because it was a fun place.”